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Vienna 2018: Beauty and the Abyss

January 16, 2018 GW Administrator 0

In 2018, Vienna will celebrate Modernism and four of the era’s chief protagonists, all of whom died in 1918. The painters Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, the architect Otto Wagner and the universal artist Koloman […]

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An Austrian Favorite: Sacher Torte

October 26, 2016 GW Administrator 0

Ingredients: Six eggs (separated), 130 g butter, 130 g chocolate, 130 g flour, 200 g sugar, chocolate icing, apricot jam. Instructions: Stir half of the sugar into the butter until stiff, then briefly stir in […]

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Vienna-Highlight: Praterstrasse

December 4, 2015 GW Administrator 0

Austria: Praterstrasse Praterstrasse, in Vienna’s second district, runs directly from the city centre to the Praterstern transport hub. Fashionable shops and cafés are springing up like mushrooms on this one-kilometer long, tree-lined boulevard. The gateway […]

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Vienna: Ninth District

November 18, 2015 GW Administrator 0

Spotlight on the ninth district of Austria’s capital Sigmund Freud’s consulting rooms and Franz Schubert’s birthplace, summertime bars on the banks of the Danube Canal, an artisanal chocolate factory, the university campus and Austria’s largest […]